In the 1960s through 1980s,\u00a0the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the\u00a0United States, envisioning a world without\u00a0systemic racism and\u00a0police violence. This is the story of Portland, Oregon’s chapter of the Party,\u00a0told from original interviews, first-hand accounts,\u00a0and extensive\u00a0research, including police surveillance documents. This account shows\u00a0a vivid picture of neighborhood activists\u00a0determined to improve their community by creating\u00a0their own social services,\u00a0and wildly succeeding\u2014despite the best attempts of police, city officials, and media to paint them as violent extremists, and to spy on, infiltrate, and violently suppress their activities. Portland’s Black Panther chapter innovated healthy free breakfasts for\u00a0children in poverty, the longest-running Panther free health clinic, the Panthers’ first dental clinic, and a powerful system of self-directing neighborhood associations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the 1960s through 1980s,\u00a0the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the\u00a0United States, envisioning a world without\u00a0systemic racism and\u00a0police violence. This is the story of Portland, Oregon’s chapter of the Party,\u00a0told from original interviews, first-hand accounts,\u00a0and extensive\u00a0research, including police surveillance documents. This account shows\u00a0a vivid picture of neighborhood activists\u00a0determined to improve their community by creating\u00a0their… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-now"],"my_excerpt":"\n In the 1960s through 1980s,\u00a0the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the\u00a0United States, envisioning a world without\u00a0systemic racism and\u00a0police violence. This is the story of Portland, Oregon's chapter of the Party,\u00a0told from original interviews, first-hand accounts,\u00a0and extensive\u00a0research, including police surveillance documents. This account shows\u00a0a vivid picture of neighborhood activists\u00a0determined to improve their community by creating\u00a0their own social services,\u00a0and wildly succeeding\u2014despite the best attempts of police, city officials, and media to paint them as violent extremists, and to spy on, infiltrate, and violently suppress their activities. Portland's Black Panther chapter innovated healthy free breakfasts for\u00a0children in poverty, the longest-running Panther free health clinic, the Panthers' first dental clinic, and a powerful system of self-directing neighborhood associations. <\/p>\n","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n In the 1960s through 1980s,\u00a0the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the\u00a0United States, envisioning a world without\u00a0systemic racism and\u00a0police violence. This is the story of Portland, Oregon’s chapter of the Party,\u00a0told from original interviews, first-hand accounts,\u00a0and extensive\u00a0research, including police surveillance documents. This account shows\u00a0a vivid picture of neighborhood activists\u00a0determined to improve their community by creating\u00a0their own social services,\u00a0and wildly succeeding\u2014despite the best attempts of police, city officials, and media to paint them as violent extremists, and to spy on, infiltrate, and violently suppress their activities. Portland’s Black Panther chapter innovated healthy free breakfasts for\u00a0children in poverty, the longest-running Panther free health clinic, the Panthers’ first dental clinic, and a powerful system of self-directing neighborhood associations. <\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}